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MOLDING OR OTHER IRREGULAR SURFACE- No. 303,356. Patented Aug. 12, 1884.

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FREDERICK BECK, OF NEW YORK, N. 'Y.

, MOLDING OR OTHER SPECIFICATION forming part of'Letters Application filed April 21, 1884.

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Be it known that I, FREDERICK BECK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Moldings and other Irregular Surfaces, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of moldings or other irregular surfaces; and it consists in cutting a rabbet or recess into the molding, which recess or rabbet shall have undercut or dovetailing sides, and into this recess or rabbet I slide strips of material cut of suitable width to properly fill the recess or rabbet and be bound therein by its edges engaging with the undercut sides of the recess.

My invention also consists in the use of pliant substances forming a backing on which, when flat, I spread plastic or other material, and mold or otherwise give it the desired shape, if it requires molding or shaping, and orna-' ment it as desired; and when finished I can spring the backing to cause it to conform to the shape of the recess, and thus easily and quickly produce an ornamented molding at much less cost and of greater beauty than other moldings, because the ornamentation being done while the material is flat, it is much more perfect and uniform, and much more quickly and easily done.

In the drawings the same letters designate the same parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 shows a cross-section of the molding, showing the recesses for the reception of the ornamented strips. Fig. 2 shows a crosssection with the ornamented strips in position. Fig. 3 shows a front view of the molding with the strips in position. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the strip, showing the pliant backing with the plastic material spread upon it.

A is the base or body of the molding. It may be made in any desired shape.

B B are the recesses or rabbets cut in the molding, provided with undercut or dovetail ing sides or edges 1) b.

0 O are the ornamented strips. They may be composed of any suitable substance.

The invention is especially intended by me to be used in the manufacture of ornamented IRREGULAR SURFACE.

Patent No. 303,356, dated August 12 1884.

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1 moldings, in which the substance or composition called lincrustai. 0., oxidized oil and paper-pulp or other likesubstauce mixed togetheris molded into ornamented relief or intagliowork. WVhen using lincrusta for this purpose, it is spread on cloth or paper and while plastic molded into the desired pattern or design. This can then be colored, if desired, and,when finished and partly or entirely hardened, be readily cutup into strips to fit the recesses B, which strips can be quickly and easily bent to conform to the shape of the recesses, and slid into them and secured there with glue or other adhesive substance, or by the dovetailing ends I) 1) alone, if desired, or otherwise. If the edges of the recesses be nudercut to form dovetails, then' the'edges of the ornamented strips will be cut to conform to such edges.

material to be inserted in the recess. E E is the backing, made of linen or other pliant material, andF F is the lincrusta or other plastic material spread upon the backing E. This may be done when the backing is lying fiat, and the plastic material F may be ornamented in any desired manner, also, when flat; and then, being made of the suitable width, the strip can be bent and slid into its place, the edges, catching under the dovetailing edges 6 e, as seen, and it will conform to the irregularities of the surface, as shown; but I do not confine myself to the use of this pliant backing in connection with undercut edges to the recesses alone;

I do not limit myself to lincrusta, nor to a flexible substance, since strips of molded papier-mach, plaster-of-paris, either on abackingor not, and other substances, either flexible, semi-flexible, or rigid,1nay be employedin substantially the same manner.

I claim 1. As a new article of manufacture, a strip of material adapted to be used as a molding or part thereof, having recesses cut therein for the material, the edges of said recesses being un dercut, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. y

2. As a new article of manufacture, a strip of material adapted to be used as a molding or In Fig. 4 I show in cross-section'a strip of reception of ornamented pieces or strips of part thereof, having ornamented strips or 4. As a new'article of manufacture, material pieces of material inserted in recesses made in for ornamenting moldings, cornices, &c., comits face, the sides of the recesses being underposed of a plastic body placed on a pliant cut and the inserted strips or pieces having backing and cut into suitable Widths, to be in- 5 their edges conforming 'to the undercut edges serted in the cornice or molding, substantially 20 of the recesses, whereby the inserted pieces as and for the purposes set forth.

may be held in position by the edges of the Signed at New York city, in the county of recesses alone, substantially as and for the pur- New York and State of New York, this 17th poses set forth. day of April, A. D. 1884.

I0 3. The combination of the base or body of the molding A, provided with recesses B and FR, BECK. ornamented strips of plastic material placed upon a backing of cloth, paper, or other pli- Witnesses: ant substance, and inserted in the recesses B, PHILLIPS ABBOTT, f

15 substantially as and for the purposes set forth. WALTER H. GRITTENDEN. f 

